Campos v. Doe
- Laura Swain
- 1:25-cv-05723
- U.S. District Court · Southern District of New York
- 2
Chief Judge Swain dismissed Campos v. Swain without prejudice because it duplicated Campos’s pending earlier action.
Vladymir Campos’s duplicative federal lawsuit was dismissed, but the opinion states that his claims in the pending related action were not dismissed.
What happened
In Campos v. Swain, Vladymir Campos, who is held at the West Facility on Rikers Island, filed this lawsuit without a lawyer. The opinion says he had already filed a substantially similar complaint in another pending case, Campos v. City of New York, No. 1:25-CV-4736 (AT) (BCM).
The court concluded that this lawsuit raised the same claims as the other case and that litigating both would serve no useful purpose. The opinion does not describe the underlying claims.
Chief United States District Judge Laura Taylor Swain dismissed this action without prejudice because it was duplicative of the other case, while preserving Campos’s claims in that case. She also directed the Clerk to enter judgment and denied permission to proceed without paying filing fees for an appeal, after certifying that an appeal would not be taken in good faith.
The detailed version
- Campos v. Doe · No. 1:25-cv-05723
- Laura Swain
- Aug. 27, 2025
Background
Vladymir Campos, who the opinion says is currently held in the West Facility on Rikers Island, filed this action without a lawyer. The court states that Campos had previously submitted a substantially similar complaint in another civil action, No. 1:25-CV-4736 (AT) (BCM), which was pending before Judge Analisa Torres and referred to Magistrate Judge Barbara C. Moses.
Court’s Reasoning
The court concluded that this action raised the same claims as the pending related action. Because the lawsuit was duplicative, the court determined that litigating it would serve no useful purpose. The opinion does not describe the underlying claims or decide their merits.
Ruling
Chief United States District Judge Laura Taylor Swain dismissed this action without prejudice as duplicative of the pending related action. The dismissal was without prejudice to Campos’s claims in that other action. The court also certified under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a)(3) that any appeal would not be taken in good faith and denied permission to proceed without paying filing fees for an appeal. It directed the Clerk of Court to enter judgment dismissing this action.
Read the full 2-page opinion on CourtListener, the free public archive maintained by the Free Law Project.